Skip to main content

Battamaliba and Northern Dahomey

Dance Shield

Battamaliba or Northern Dahomey, 1900-1969

Scroll

Dance Shield

Battamaliba or Northern Dahomey, 1900-1969

Physical Qualities Raffia, string, leather
Credit Line Gift of Philip Lee Davis, Key West, Florida, in Honor of Frederick Lamp, Curator, Arts of Africa, Asia, The Americas & Oceania, 1981-2003
Object Number 2003.344
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2003; Philip Lee Davis, Key West, Florida; Allen Davis, Alexandria, Virginia; purchased from Gallery Africa, Washington, D.C., 2000
"Arts d'Afrique Noire," issue 126.

Culture

Battamaliba

2000–2000

Meet Battamaliba →

Culture

Northern Dahomey

2000–2000

Meet Northern →

Explore the Collection Further

Taos Pueblo
Dance Shield
1933–1966
Ancestral Dance Shield Representing a Frigate Bird (Kai Diba)
1899–1954
Gail Thacker
Scooter as André Kertész’s Satiric Dancer in Kevin Aviance’s Dress II
2017
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Dancers Ten
2011
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Dancers Nine
2011
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Dancers Eight
2011
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Dancers Four
2011
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Dancers Three
2011
Kuba and Unidentified
Royal Dance Skirt for King Bope Mabiinc Mbek (r. 1916-1919)
1915–1918
Kuba
Woman's Dance Skirt with Red Applique on Red Ground
1899–1929
Kuba and Unidentified
Dance Skirt with Block Design
1919–1949
Claude Leon Mascaux
"Music and Dance" Medal
1918–1928